. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . Charles A. Trageser, of Bureau of Rates of Pay,Escaped Watery Grave When The TuscaniaWas Sunk by Hun Submarine |AFE, mother ever read these wordswith greater ebullitions of joythan did Mrs. Margaret of Baltimore, when she re-ceived a cable from her son, Charles , formerly of the Bureau of Ratesof Pay, informing her of his rescue fromthe ill-fatedtransport, Tus-cania, whichwas torpedoedFebruary 5 bya Hun subma-rine off theIrish cable wasreceived fromthe soldier onFebruary 10,but the pointfrom which itwas transmit-t
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . Charles A. Trageser, of Bureau of Rates of Pay,Escaped Watery Grave When The TuscaniaWas Sunk by Hun Submarine |AFE, mother ever read these wordswith greater ebullitions of joythan did Mrs. Margaret of Baltimore, when she re-ceived a cable from her son, Charles , formerly of the Bureau of Ratesof Pay, informing her of his rescue fromthe ill-fatedtransport, Tus-cania, whichwas torpedoedFebruary 5 bya Hun subma-rine off theIrish cable wasreceived fromthe soldier onFebruary 10,but the pointfrom which itwas transmit-ted to the Uni-ted States wasstruck out bythe censor. Hisparents havebeen assured ofhis safety, notonly by hiscable, but alsoby official wordfrom Washing-ton. Charles , whowill be twenty-two years old onApril 16, wasfurloughed for military duty on Decem-ber 13, when he enlisted and was sent asstenographer to Fort Myer, Va., as amember of Company D, Sixth Battalion,Twentieth Engineers. He was there for. CHARLES A. TRAGESER a short time when he was transferred toCamp American University, Washington,D. C, for his final training. While atthe institution he was promoted to therank of sergeant. As a messenger boy he entered theservice of the Company at Camdenstation. He was then about fourteen years old. Byclose study andassiduity he fit-ted himself fora more usefulposition, beingpromoted toclerk in theTraffic Depart-ment in October ofthe same yearhe was trans-ferred as steno-grapher to theTransportationDepartment,and a year laterwent to theMotive being inthat positionfor a short timehe was againtransferred tothe Police De-partment, andabout a yearlater took upwo rk in theoffice of thesuperintendent of station service. In1917 he was transferred to the Bureauof Rates of Pay, which position he helduntil his enlistment. Heres hoping heis present at the fall of Berlin. ii JOHN E. WHITEFirst Baltimore and Ohio Man Killed in Action General Pershing ca
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